Intel Joins Under Armour, Merck CEOs to Quit Trump’s Job Council Over Charlottesville

Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank and Intel CEO Brian Krzanich stepped down from Donald Trump’s council on manufacturing jobs on Monday over the president’s response to the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.

Their move followed the departure on Monday morning of Merck CEO Ken Frazier.

“I am appreciative of the opportunity to have served, but have decided to step down from the council,” Plank said in a statement Monday night. “I love our country and our company and will continue to focus my efforts on inspiring every person that they can do anything through the power of sport which promotes unity, diversity and inclusion.”

Krzanich said in a blog post that he resigned “to call attention to the serious harm our divided political climate is causing to critical issues, including the serious need to address the decline of American manufacturing. Politics and political agendas have sidelined the important mission of rebuilding America’s manufacturing base.

“I have already made clear my abhorrence at the recent hate-spawned violence in Charlottesville, and earlier today I called on all leaders to condemn the white supremacists and their ilk who marched and committed violence,” he continued. “I resigned because I want to make progress, while many in Washington seem more concerned with attacking anyone who disagrees with them.

“The current environment must change, or else our nation will become a shadow of what it once was and what it still can and should be,” Krzanich concluded.

I stand with others for equality and improving US competitiveness. Both requireimproving in todays environment. https://t.co/RcjpGaFXBQ

Plank and Krzanich’s departures come after Merck’s Frazier also exited, opting to step away from the White House when Trump failed to immediately condemn white supremacists in his response to the weekend’s chaos that left one woman dead.

Earlier in the day, Frazier wrote on Twitter that: “America’s leaders must honor our fundamental views by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal.”

Groups of white nationalists descended on Charlottesville over the weekend to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, and were met by counter-protesters, leading to violence that began Friday night.

Unrest intensified on Saturday, as a vehicle plowed into a group of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally, killing Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal from Virginia, and injuring 19 others. More than 30 were hurt in total as a result of events at the rally.

In his first response to the events in Virginia, Trump failed to specifically single out white supremacists. Many people, both in and out of the media, have been fixated on the comments — specifically the president’s choice to condemn “many sides.”

Trump’s failure to unequivocally condemn hate groups in the remarks resulted in considerable backlash, and it wasn’t until a statement on Monday that Trump finally denounced white supremacy.

“Racism is evil — and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the [Ku Klux Klan], neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,” he said.

You can't have "the best words" if you can't correctly spell them. Even more serious than the Trump administration's beef with CNN is its beef with grammar, as is evidenced by a score of tweets and official White House documents that are riddled with spelling errors, misused words and downright gibberish. Here are 21 of the worst (and most laughable) offenses.

"Innaccurately"

Oh, the irony! The White House tried to call out the Congressional Budget Office for inaccuracy but inaccurately spelled the word "innaccurately."

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"Honered"

Before "covfefe," there was "honered." Of course, newly-inaugurated Trump meant to tweet that he was "honored," but that's not what happened.

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"Unpresidented"

According to Huffington Post, Trump Twitter-slammed China for seizing a U.S. underwater drone in December 2016. He also made up a word in the process. By “unpresidented,” we can assume he meant “unprecedented.”

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"San Bernadino"

The White House got a few things wrong with this list of “unreported” terror attacks. First, many of the incidents actually had been reported. Second, “San Bernardino” was spelled incorrectly.

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"Attaker"

In the same report, the WH managed to misspell “attacker” 23 times in a row. That has to be some sort of record.

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"W.E.B. DeBois"

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) botched the name of legendary civil rights activist, W.E.B. DuBois. It’s DU Bois, as in “DU” they realize the epic mistake they made?

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"Deepest apologizes"

Apparently, the DOE did catch the gaffe and subsequently tweeted out an apology… sort of.

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"Columbia"

This is a common spelling error that also tripped up Steve Harvey in the past. For the record, when referring to the country, the correct spelling is "Colombia."

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“Possibility of lasting peach”

According to a White House press release, one of Trump’s objectives during his most recent visit to Israel was to “promote the possibility of lasting peach” between Israelis and Palestinians. Who needs peace when you can have peaches?

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“Couple with changes”

Another typo from the same press release. This time, someone left off the “d” in the word “coupled.” Hence, we have “A new approach, couple with changes.”

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"Councel"

After Trump tweeted this misspelling on May 18, Merriam-Webster reported that "councel" was their most-searched word of that day.

Twitter/The Hill

"Tapp"

President Obama did not "tapp" Trump's phone at any time during his two terms in office, because there is no such word as "tapp" in the English language.

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Too vs. To

This was not a tweet. This was Donald Trump's official inauguration portrait... with an egregious typo printed front and center.

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"Teresa May"

This mistake doesn’t seem too critical… until you consider the fact that Teresa (sans “h”) May is the name of a British porn star, not the British Prime Minister. The latter spells her first name with an "h."

White House/Huffington Post

"Hear by"

He should have typed "hereby." Of course, POTUS received a lot of flack for this one, among his many other botched spellings.

Twitter/Pro Publica

"Educatuon"

Failure took the form of a White House Snapchat on April 17. There's no excuse for this one.

Welcome to the White House: where the words are made up, and spellcheck doesn’t matter

You can't have "the best words" if you can't correctly spell them. Even more serious than the Trump administration's beef with CNN is its beef with grammar, as is evidenced by a score of tweets and official White House documents that are riddled with spelling errors, misused words and downright gibberish. Here are 21 of the worst (and most laughable) offenses.